Ordinance No. 500183
ORDINANCE NO. 500
AN URGENCY ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
CYPRESS REGARDING AMENDING SECTION 23 -19 OF THE CYPRESS
CITY CODE AND PROVIDING FOR REGULATION OF SIGNS.
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CYPRESS HEREBY DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1:
Section 23 -19 of the Cypress City Code, as amended, is hereby amended
to read in full as follows:
"Section 23 -19. Size Restrictions In Certain Zones.
Only the following signs shall be permitted in the following
zones as set out in the Zoning Map of the City:
(a) RE Zone. The following signs shall be permitted in an RE Zone:
(1) Those signs allowed by Section 23 -8.
(2) One lighted or unlit sign not over twenty -five square feet
in area fronting on any one street advertising the sale of
products grown or produced on the premises or the sale, lease
or hire of the building, property or premises upon which
displayed.
(b) RU Zone. The following signs shall be permitted in an RU Zone:
(1) Those signs allowed by Section 23 -8.
(c) RM Zone. The following signs shall be permitted in an RM Zone:
(1) Those signs allowed by Section 23 -8.
(2) If the property frontage exceeds two hundred feet, one fifteen
square foot unlighted sign advertising the rental or lease
of the property.
(3) One unlighted name place for each dwelling unit, attached flat
against the main building, not exceeding four inches by six
inches, containing only the name and occupation of the occupant
of the premises.
(d) CO and CN Zones. The following signs shall be permitted in the CO
and CN Zones:
(1) Not more than two signs are permitted for the same business
frontage and then total advertising area shall not exceed
either:
(a) Twenty percent of the face of the building frontage to
which the sign pertains, or;
(b) Two square feet per lineal foot of building frontage
to which the sign pertains, or;
(c) Forty square feet, whichever is greater.
(2) In addition to the above, a directory or community sign is
permitted for each commercial development of three or more
businesses; provided, that the total area of the sign is not
over one square foot per one lineal foot of combined property
frontage.
(3) Those signs permitted by Section 23 -8.
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(e) CG Zone. The following signs shall be permitted in the CG Zone:
(1) Those signs permitted in CO and CN Zones.
(2) In the event the principal display of merchandise is located
outside of a main building, an additional one square foot
per lineal foot of display frontage of sign is permitted.
(f) CH Zone. The following signs shall be permitted in the CH Zone:
(1) Those signs permitted in a CG Zone,
(2) Billboards not to exceed one for each seven hundred lineal feet
of street frontage.
(g) MP and M -1 Zones. The following signs shall be permitted in the
MP and M -1 Zones:
(1) Those signs permitted in the CH Zone.
(h) PC, PS, PRD and MHP Zones. Only those signs shall be permitted
in the PC, PS, PRD and MHP zones as are approved by the Planning
Commission under a Conditional Use Permit."
SECTION 2:
The City Council of the City of Cypress hereby declares that the following
facts constitute the urgency requiring this Ordinance to take effect as an
Urgency Ordinance:
The City Council, the Planning Commission, and the Planning Department
of the City of Cypress are considering and studying, and intend to study the
use of signs and the regulation thereof within the City of Cypress for the
purpose of amending Chapter 23 of the Cypress City Code. Recently, on
November 27, 1972, the Cypress City Council adopted a Zoning Ordinance
using different zone classifications than those used in Chapter 23 of
the Cypress City Code. In order to bring the Cypress Zoning Ordinance
and the Cypress Sign Regulations into conformity and to insure that signs
are properly regulated, this interim Urgency Ordinance must be used as an
emergency measure and is necessary to prohibit any uses which may be in
conflict with the contemplated zoning proposal amending Chapter 23 of the
Cypress City Code.
PASSED AND ADOPTED by the City Council of the City of Cypress at an adjourned
regular meeting held on the 18th day of December, 1972.
ATTEST:
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CITY CLERK OF THE CITY O 'CYPRESS
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF ORANGE ) SS
MAYOR OF HETY OPYPRESS
I, DARRELL ESSEX, City Clerk of the City of Cypress, DO HEREBY CERTIFY that the
foregoing Urgency Ordinance was duly adopted at an adjourned regular meeting of the
said City Council held on the 18th day of December, 1972; by the following roll
call vote:
AYES: 5 COUNCILMEN: Frankiewich, Harvey, Kanel, Roberts and Lacayo
NOES: 0 COUNCILMEN: None
ABSENT: 0 COUNCILMEN: None
CITY CLERK OF THE CITY UP CYPRESS
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